“…Although the REBT approach is not given much attention in the issue of smoking behavior, it has been shown to be effective in treating a varety of psychological issues, including effectively reducing the rate of irrational beliefs and increasing self-esteem in troubled teenagers (Mat & Jaafar, 2022), developing self-concept, resilience and coping skills (Khalid, 2017), removing feelings of self-doubt, low self-esteem and high irrational self-belief among bullying victims (Fauziah, 2016), reducing the level of stress, anxiety, depression, paranoid and psychosis among students universities ( Xu & Liu, 2017), reduce irrational beliefs and anxiety among athletes (Martin, 2016) and help stress management (Ugwoke et al, 2017;Ilechukwu et al, 2021).…”